[Battlemesh] International links between Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia

[Michel de Geofroy]

If line of sight is not presently feasible encrypted tunnels should bridge
the gap or even physical carriers could use flash memory on phone or ssd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <
hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:

>
>
> On 10/20/2012 11:49 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Gui Iribarren <gui at altermundi.net>
> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
> >> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> >>> On 10/20/2012 02:29 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:
> >>>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen
> >>>> <paul at servalproject.org> wrote:
> >>>>> WiFi long-shots from USA->Alaska->Russia->Europe should be possible?
> >>>>
> >>>> Only with really high towers or a relay station on the island in the
> >>>> Bering Strait.
> >>>> (its nearly 100 km of water if you don't have a relay on the island)
> >>>
> >>> 125 miles/200km with 300mW wifi:
> >>>
> >>> http://boingboing.net/2005/07/31/defcon-wifi-shootout.html
> >>
> >> Ermanno Pietrosemoli et al [0] actually did a ~400km link on 2.4ghz,
> >> but those distances (including the defcon wifi shootout), are only
> >> possible because of the heights provided by generous mountains.
> >>
> >> [0]:
> https://interred.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/ermanno-pietrosemoli-has-set-a-new-record-for-the-longest-communication-wi-fi-link/
> >
> >
> > Exactly... I was more worried about "curving of Earth" than about power.
>
> If you're talking Alaska to Russia, you only need 40km links because there
> is
> an island in between, as well as a 600m peak right on the shore:
>
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=alaska&aq=&sll=40.697488,-73.979681&sspn=0.559109,0.810242&vpsrc=6&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Alaska&ll=65.650349,-168.527527&spn=0.608111,1.620483&z=9
>
> And if you really need height, other parts of Alaska have 6000m peaks like
> Denali.
>
>
>
> .hc
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